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Technology Stocks : Omega Research (NASDAQ:OMGA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Iceberg who wrote (483)	8/20/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: Scrumpy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 516

No illusions here... as I said, I didn't mind eating an extended evaluation fee. But why does every other software trial tell me "XX days left in your trial" (Dreamweaver, Winzip, etc.)? And why does Prosuite remind me 90 days into evaluation that my password will expire (every 45 minutes), even after they billed me a second time, and even after I renewed my password? Now it tells me "your password will expire in 0 days...every hour). Great, bug-free software to boot. Their software is feature loaded, but it is by no means first-class. Expensive isn't tantamount to "first rate", though they'd like you to believe so with it's ridiculous price tag. Customer service is average, and I'm not the only one who feels this way (check out Kha vu's posts). Try Qcharts. It's free, lightning fast, and carries little memory overhead and has every technical feature Tradestation has other than back-testing, and "experts". Omega's code is shoddy, relies on Microsoft's SQLServer back-end, and uses dog-ass slow COM "technology". It takes 15 minutes to shut down Omega and another 10 minutes to shut down GlobalServer. And you tell me that's classy? As a developer, I find that ridiculous. Omega's software also required me to upgrade my machines to 384Mb RAM. I didn't see that mentioned prior to my ostensibly "free" trial, nor on the box in which it was delivered. Lastly, try buying RadarScreen. Visit their site, add it to your "shopping cart", then buy it. A joke, really...perhaps on me. I think I know why OMGA is almost a penny stock. Scrumpy